After doing some minor research, CMOV is a conditional move instruction that includes a conditional branch after doing a compare concurrent with a move. This keeps from using two instructions, a compare then a conditional branch, to perform the same function. This grouping is done quite often, so it can speed up processes where it is used.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/5807/what-is-the-significance-of-the-cmov-cpu-instruction Has a reasonable description. Personally, I don't agree, but no one asked me. I guess I will be staying with 10.04LTS for quite a while. If you want to check your processor, try cat /proc/cpuinfo and check the flags: line for cmov If it is there, then you get continued support. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
